The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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The Varieties of Religious Experience, By William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. The lectures concerned the psychological study of individual private religious experiences and mysticism, and used a range of examples to identify commonalities in religious experiences across traditions.
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Subject: Soma and the Anaesthetic Revelation: How William James failed to connect the dots
Subject: Soma and the Anaesthetic Revelation: How William James failed to connect the dots
William James discusses how the use of anesthetic compounds such as laughing gas can provide one with a tantalizing glimpse of new realities. "Our normal
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waking consciousness," quoth James, "is but one special type of consciousness." He fails to realize, however, that such "anesthetic revelations," as he calls them, comprise but a subset of the transcendent experiences that have been invoked purposefully for millennia by indigenous religious seekers with the use of psychoactive substances. Although James makes half a dozen references to Hinduism in this book, he never mentions the fact that the Hindu religion was inspired by the use of a psychoactive substance called Soma. Had he made the connection, America's demagogue politicians would have had a harder time convincing us that drugs were evil. Instead, they have succeeded so well that even James's alma mater, Harvard University, does not mention either laughing gas or the anesthetic revelation in their online biography of James.
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